Harrow tooth holder



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DAVID 0. EVEREST, OF, PINE GROVE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE WIL-'LIAMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

HARROW TOOTH HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No; 400,397, dated March26, 1889 Application filed January 14, 1839. Serial No. 296,337. (Nbmafia.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID O. EvEEEsT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pine Grove, county of Van Buren, State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and 'useful Im= provement in Harrow-Tooth Holders, ofwhich the following is a specificationa This invention relates todevices for bolding barrow-teeth and shares in a manner to be adjustedin relation to the depth of cut, audit has for its object the belowdescribed and claimed construction, substantially as set forth.

' In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is aside elevation of the holder and tooth, parts being broken away and thecrossed tooth-beams in perspective. Fig. 2 is an under plan view of Fig.1, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective of the holder. 4

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, A O are the crossedbeams of the ordinary style of float barrow-frames, but so far as theholder is concerned the beams may be crossed or not, as desired. Theunder side of the beam A, to which the tooth B is attached, has amortise or recess deeper at one end than the other, as shown in black inFig. 1, and in this recess is placed a casting, D, wedgeshaped, thethickest end being in the deepest end of the recess in the tooth-beam,Figs. 1

and 3. The shank of the tooth is placed between the casting D and thebeam A in the recess. The casting or plate D is clamped to the beam bythe side bolts, e e, passed up through the plate and beam.

At m is a screw-bolt or set-screw passed down through the beam, and whensaid beam is wood the screw-bolt is passed through a nut orscrew-threaded block embedded in the 4s beam or attached thereto, theidea being illustrated at I, Fig. 1, so as to screw the bolt m fartherin or farther out. The lower end of the bolt m contacts with the toothat the rear end of theshank.

In the operation of raising the cutting-point of the tooth thescrew-bolt m is raised and the v clamping-bolts e e are set tighter. Tolower the point of the tooth, the bolts e e are loosened and thescrew-bolt set farther down.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination of a tooth-beam, a binding-plate, bolts attachingsaid plate to the beam, and a screw-bolt passed through the beam, and atooth between the end of the screw-bolt and the plate, whereby the toothand plate are adjusted, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the tooth-beam having the wedge-shaped recess, atooth or share, a wedge-shaped plate, side bolts attaching said plate tothe beam, and a screw-bolt passed through the beam for adjusting thetooth and plate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name inpresence of two witnesses.

DAVID 0. EVEREST.

Witnesses P. MAODUFF, EUGENE Soorr.

